Intergalactic Summit

You missed the bigger point. Users are not forced to use the service. Do as you agreed or not do at all. Not complicated.

When strategic employment of the block feature on 3-4 pilots effectively removes 70-80% of the content on IGS, you know the service has lost any notion of its monicker. Nothing of value will be achieved here, and clowns have made easy entertainment for the masses since long before DED existed.

My only suggestion is to return to the salon. Small, semi-regular meetings, in person and by invitation only, to discuss matters of culture and policy.

Follow the rules you agreed to or head for the exits either way stop all the whining.

Oh yes, of course.

Those people.

It's always those people, who are to blame.

Yes, indeed, those people, who ruin everything by their behaviour.

Why, look at all the things that are posted elsewhere, on more actively moderated fora, without the participation of those people. The content there is so much higher quality than here.

Actively moderated fora such as:

Including such well known fora as:

I'd just like to point out that I spend most of my time these days on The Summit, not the Intergalactic Summit, because on The Summit, those 2-3 people consistently at the root of most dramatic problems are banned. And I can actually have useful conversations with nice people there. And the salon idea as well, meetings in person are so much more productive. Usually the mark of who is NOT a part of those people as Valerie put it, is that they are actually willing to meet you in a civil setting and behave in a civil manner. If they can't tolerate the presence of a significant number of people enough to do that, usually they're one of those people.

For example, Templar Thal Vadam recently had a birthday celebration, to which I was invited, along with Literia among others (Literia and Diana Kim do not get along, to the point that Diana, warmhearted as she is, said she hoped LIteria's children were killed and that her at-the-time fetus was stillborn. Charming, I know. But no need to moderate any of that, Mr. Aliette).

The Templar had to refrain from inviting Diana, because she swore to attempt to kill us both, at his birthday celebration. He asked her not to disrupt the party, for his sake, not ours or anyone else's, because they are old friends, or at least were. She refused, and then acted as if he had done something wrong by refraining from thus inviting her and disclosing the location of the event to her.

This is not a situation I am willing to put up with anymore, or pretend that it is anything other than freakish and inhuman. Yes, she is absolutely one of those people, and it's blatantly obvious to anyone who spends maybe an hour watching her behavior.

The small few people like her make it to where this forum will not grow, will scare off the new Alpha clones, and will continually bleed valuable contributors until it becomes an echo chamber catered to exactly one person and the people willing to put up with her. Her toxicity has probably driven away dozens of people who could've become active, contributing members of this community.

I see your point Valerie, but sometimes the shoe does fit.

There is no "point." Literally the only people who agitate so vociferously against proper forum moderation are those likely to lose their ability to post on it if it was imposed.